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ORDINARY PEOPLE AS MONKS AND MYSTICS: Lifestyles For Self-Discovery
by Sinetar, Marsha
ISBN: 0809127733
Publisher: Paulist Press
Do You Know Someone Who Lives Apart and Likes It?... Local author/researcher wishes to interview unique individuals, over age 35, who, despite life's ups & downs: -- Live alone (by choice) in a positive contributive relationship to others. -- Possess a highly developed sense of aesthetics, ethics and universal order. -- Experience their work and / or daily activity as devotional, a calling, or as service. -- Have designed their lives to be as simple, orderly and uncomplicated as possible. Also, legally married couples who fit this description would be ideal for participation in this life style study. If you know of someone interested in participation (confidential questionnaire), please ask him or her to review this ad and respond to: Boxholder P.O. Box 1 Stewarts Point, CA 95480 Ordinary People as Monks and Mystics is an interesting and novel approach to the fascinating subject of finding ones spiritual way... It speaks very simply to the rising quest of many people to find a more spiritual meaning in a materialistic universe and among people who have no place for a spiritual dimension." -- Morton Kelsey Professor Emeritus, Theology University of Notre Dame Marsha Sinetar's case study approach of interviewing people who have found inner peace in their own ways makes this a highly readable and intriguing book." -- Katherine Anne, White Associate Professor of English/Women's Studies Coordinator University of Wisconsin ...a valuable, personal and practical book on spiritual psychology. It will assist the self-actualization and self-transcendence of the monk and mystic in each of us." -- Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D.
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